State-wide perspective, it is a very small tail wagging a very wide dog—lots of player in states

Outside person said that they thought the focus groups were great & that the moderator was wonderful…helped them to think about their broadband

John Winhausen Update

We have had several meetings w/ the industry folks, think tanks and NARUC

Conclusions from meetings

Not enthusiasm for changing our policies

Current policies in place right now are sufficient

Barriers noted include lack of industry coming to the table

Telephone Companies had a couple of priorities

Tax Relief

Need for state-wide video franchises

Wi-Max could be the solution in Rural Areas

Verizon Fios build-out

RUS, department of Ag

Why do we need change?

Cable

”We’ve solved all your problems”

Increasing their capacity

Opposed to large-scale broadband plan

Unserved Areas vs. Underserved

Areas of agreement

Private v. Public partnerships

Connect Kentucky is a good example

Opposed to build out requirements

Less incentive to invest if we require them to give cheap access, but we could dictate a price if the broadband is already there

Rob Atkinson

State technology policy (including broadband) is coming out soon

E-Rate from meetings

We are in a period of data collection

Trying to probe into what is going on

Good Idea----states that have nearly 100% E-Rate participation is usually a state network. There is a lot of money left on the table b/c they do not apply for telecomm.

App window closes on February 2nd, so not probing much into participation

There are no rules/requirements that would prevent libraries from getting

1.2 out of 2.5 billion used for Priority 1

Priority 1 is funded before priority (and all Priority 1 is guaranteed funding)

If we stay silent, nothing will happen with that extra $1 billion

Priority 2 is inside wiring—libraries are rarely eligible for this $$$; mainly goes to schools

New construction=a good way to apply

John Bertot update from ALA

Regional networks are increasing role

Massachusetts—very large regional

State Selection Criteria

Criteria to use for selecting states

Where do we have good information from people on our team?

States with data from McClure/Bertot Study

Choosing high connectivity states w/ and some w/out state network

Unintended consequences

One suggestion for ‘Well connected’

One state network

One regional network

One ‘all on your own’

Video Franchising—background criteria

Does a state have an Advances Services & Technology Fund?

Does a state have its own State E-Rate program?

Industry structure

Structure of state librarians office (who do they report to?)

Willingness of state librarian’s office to participate

Exact Criteria

Do we already know enough?

Different models

State

Regional

On your own

Do we know of any unintended consequences?

Hard Data—from our data stores

Sustainability issue? Built early—going strong & growing

Video Franchising (Tie Breaker, may be too early to determine effect)

Industry structure

US Geographic Distribution

State Selection

During the selection of states, several were offered as candidates. The ones that were discussed by not selected include: Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Iowa, Nevada and Mississippi. These were removed from the list for a variety of reasons.

In the end, we selected the below states for visitation based upon states that were highly connected, less than ideally connected and a hybrid example.

States We Will Visit & Data on the Criteria for Selection

Connected

Kentucky

While Public Libraries and the Internet data doesn’t show high success in Rural areas, Urban & Sub-urban areas are almost all connected at 769 kpbs

All the policy people we have talked to in DC have been enthusiastic about the Connect Kentucky, so we would like to visit to find out why and if their model is a good one

Private/Public partnership

One of the first state networks

Southern State

Michigan

Regional networks for ten years; set up when regional E-Rate coordinators when they first came out

Not the same from Region to Region

$2 million out of E-Rate

Regional does all procurement

PL&I 50-50 rural; good in suburban and urban

Standards for libraries part of state metrics

Connectivity for libs is standardized @ state

Gave away rights of way at the state level a while ago, which is one of our policy options

Economic development people are interested in broadband development & removed from state, which is yet another policy option we are interested in

2 big telcos AT&T and Verizon split the state

Midwestern state

Really rural (e.g. Upper Peninsula) and urban environments

Missouri

Good state wide network

Libraries joined a academic and school network

State & local funding

sustainability success

PL&I looks good—excellent response rate

about odd that suburban is better than rural

Video Franchising-Bills introduced on AT&Ts list

High funding from High-cost USAC

No state fund; no state Universal Service

Ohio

Good state wide network

Multiple state networks

Separate K12, Academic, and Library networks

PL&I good connectivity

No State connectivity or State E-Rate funds

Formula for bandwidth

State librarian is new (2 yrs)

State Library does a lot of E-Rate training (from Education perspective)

Less Than Ideally Connected

Idaho

Good connectivity in suburban and urban, but low low rural connectivity

Low rural

State Tech fund

Kansas

Rural problems

State Universal Service

Diverse industry structure

On list

Hybrid

California

Has state fund…similar to Maine

Complication of state funding

Is working on policy implications from the states

Telecom policy is in the political debate

State Technology Funds & E-Rate funds

On their own and regional

Selected for High (well connected in urban areas and low connectivity in the northern part of the state)

States We will Touch Base With

Several states were not selected to visit for a variety of reasons, but have enthusiastic participants from the MW focus groups, good examples. We have selected states to have phone conversations with key people to gather additional information include:

Connecticut

Learned much information at MW Focus Groups

State Network

Good mix of libraries that are and aren't connected at greater than 769 kbps

New England/East Coast State

Florida

Excellent Regional Networks

Several people from Florida are on the OITP E-Rate Task Force and Telecom Sub-Committee